SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Scott LeBrun A clean shaven Chuck Norris stars in this enjoyable formula action movie with an admittedly trite story. Chuck plays Sean Kane, a narcotics detective whose partner, Dave Pierce (Terry Kiser), is killed early on. Sean, despite having images of the nightmarish scene in his head, is determined to find and punish those responsible. This, of course, he does after resigning from the police force. Teaming up with his gruff and witty mentor, James Chan (Mako), Sean sets about determining the identity of some dope smugglers.As far as "vengeance for killing my loved ones" cinema goes, "An Eye for an Eye" is agreeable entertainment. An engaging Chuck delivers one of his better performances, and his supporting cast is pretty damn eclectic. His adversary is a smooth and dapper Sir Christopher Lee, as news station owner Morgan Canfield. Lee is cool but is kind of wasted in this part. Richard "Shaft" Roundtree is Chucks' boss, one of those standard issue superior officers who's weary of his employees' methods. The gorgeous and sexy Rosalind Chao is effective as the partners' grieving girlfriend; Maggie Cooper is likewise pleasing to watch as Chucks' love interest. A fine assortment of first rate character actors also helps matters: the briefly seen Kiser of "Weekend at Bernie's" fame, Stuart Pankin as effeminate pimp Nicky LaBelle, Matt Clark as one of Chucks' colleagues, and Mel Novak as the weaselly Montoya. The massive screen villain Professor Toru Tanaka makes quite the impression as a heavy - named The Professor - who, in one uproarious scene, expresses his displeasure by beating up a Volkswagen. J.E. Freeman, Robert Behling, and Nancy Fish have bits. But the show is completely stolen by the hilarious Mako, who endlessly criticizes Chucks' technique and reels off one liners. ("I tried to question him...he preferred to expire.")In the first of his two movies with Chuck, director Steve Carver delivers the expected action with skill and keeps the story moving forward at a good pace. Chuck kicks ass in high style, and has a nice showdown with the Professor, complete with silly sound effects. There's some fine location work in San Francisco and a solid music score by composer William Goldstein."An Eye for an Eye" isn't one of Chucks' best, but it does just fine for a nights' viewing. The sense of humour does help quite a bit.Seven out of 10.

Maziun Most of early Chuck Norris movies are terribly cheap and simply unberable. This one is not good either , but a vast improvement over the earlier movies . At least it's somewhat watchable with good things in it , even when overall it's a movie you forget about the next day.The plot is rather formulaic . We often have to wait for a considerable amount of time for the action sequences to start and at times the plot makes you go "What the hell is going on here ". Much of the movie seems contrived and episodic.The action scenes have some cool touches of slow motion. The martial arts are believable and fun . The music is really good. The whole movie feels more like a 70's movie , but that's not a bad thing.Norris tries to show a little bit more emotion than his usual stone face. "Tries" is the right word.He also looks very young with his blonde hair and clean shaved baby face. Richard Roundtree ("Shaft") is solid as Capt. Stevens and so is Mako as Norris mentor. He's not a bad comic relief too. Professor Toru Tanaka ("Goldfinger") is enjoyable as always as the intimidating foe. I only don't understand his weird shoes. The only bad performance comes from the wooden Maggie Cooper as the love interest. Christopher Lee ("Dracula") makes a nice performance, too bad he doesn't have too much screen time.Forgettable , but harmless movie if you're in the mood. I give it 2/10.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) About all the great movies that starred Chuck Norris, "An Eye for an Eye" happens to be one of my faves. Chuck plays Sean Kane, an San Fransico cop who kick major butt when his partner and his wife are killed. First, his partner doing a sting operation gone bad when he gets run down, his wife gets strangled by a huge henchman known only as The Professor(Professor Toru Tanaka, 1930-2000). While he chased her, he also lifted that Volkswagon that nearly ran him over. Mako play Sean's instructor who give him a hand in find the killer(Christopher Lee) who had the people killed. Richard Roundtree well known for play John Shaft, plays Sean's boss who has a tough time understanding him. The fight scenes are great. I like when he took out every villain in different fashions. The late night boat scenes when he did those double-kicks. The office where he had his hands tied behind his back. And the outdoors/indoors scenes where everything is totally awesome. The distracting spin-kick, the kick the villain into the pool. And most of all, the battle between Sean and the Professor. Despite being thrown across the bar and tables Sean managed to have the momentum to do a flying sidekick to take out the Professor once and for all. Great movie is all I can say!3.5 out of 5 stars!

Woodyanders Okay, let's start this review off by stating for the record that this flick sure ain't no groundbreaking work of exceptional cinematic art. However, it's an enjoyably funky little martial arts action item that does the trick quite nicely, getting immediately down to butt-kicking business right from the stirring start and never letting up to the thrilling end. A clean-shaven, baby-faced Chuck Norris stars as rugged San Francisco cop Sean Kane, who after losing his partner in an ambush (a brief appearance by Terry Kiser of "Weekend at Bernie's" fame) quits the police force and decides to go after the no-count drug-dealing evildoers responsible on his own, using his chopsocky prowess to clean their clocks like nobody's business. So far, so formulaic and predictable. Fortunately, director Steve ("Big Bad Mama") Carver maintains a snappy pace and a gritty atmosphere which keeps the pretty flimsy story on track throughout. The action is both plentiful and exciting, with especially cool use of strenuous slow motion and a substantial body count racked up by our man Chuck. Moreover, a bang-up supporting cast helps a lot: the late, great Mako as a fellow martial artist who's constantly criticizing Norris' sloppy form (Mako makes for a really funny comic relief character), Richard "Shaft" Roundtree as Norris' huffy, disapproving superior, Rosalind Chao as a gutsy lady TV reporter, the always terrific Christopher Lee as the suavely slimy main villain, Matt Clark as a weaselly cop on the take, and the enormous Professor Toru Tanaka as a hulking ferocious flunky for the bad guys (the scene where Tanaka beats up a Volkswagon is an absolute riot!). Sure, this film will never be hailed as some kind of great overlooked classic, but it's nonetheless loads of solid, silly, straight-down-the-line early 80's action fun and that's good enough for me.